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The Brighton music makers Opus Kink have released the follow-up to their debut EP ‘Til The Stream Runs Dry‘, with the doubly impressive ‘My Eyes, Brother!’  Speaking ahead of their EP release, frontman Angus Rogers stated: “Our new EP ‘My Eyes, Brother!’ is a loose collection of dream and nightmare sequences. The narrators, proudly unreliable, don their various …

Brightons Opus Kink have shared their second offering ‘Children’, taken from their eagerly anticipated ‘My Eyes, Brother!’ EP, due the 19th of May via Nice Swan Records. Speaking ahead of their upcoming release, frontman Angus Rogers stated: “Please enjoy ‘Children’, our Ibiza summertime anthem, a song about how very hard it is being an artist who makes little funny things then dashes …

Brighton sextet Opus Kink share their new single ‘1 : 18’, which is the second reveal from the band’s eagerly anticipated second EP ‘My Eyes, Brother!’ due the 19th of May via Nice Swan Records  Speaking ahead of their newest release, Opus Kink stated: “This is a song about letting your hair down and finding peace in the unreasonable squalid indifference …

Elusive art pop, math rock four-piece cowboyy have released their chasmic debut EP ‘Epic The Movie’, out today via Nice Swan Records – listen here.   Spanning across five genre-fluid tracks, it’s Stanley Powell‘s razor-sharp guitar playing that sits at the core of the EP and weaves a cohesive thread through the South Coast quartet’s first substantial body of work – from the heavy rock shredding of …

Hallan are Conor Clements (vocals), Joshua Tweedale (bass), Joshua Ransley (guitar), Adam Mills (drums), and they are set to release their new EP ‘The Noise Of A Firing Gun’ on the 31st of March. The EP sees the band experiment with production elements and shift their gaze towards synthesised sounds of the ‘80s, whilst retaining …

Portsmouth post-punks Hallan are back with their second EP ‘The Noise Of A Firing Gun’, which is set for release on the 31st of March via Nice Swan Records. They have shared the lead single ‘Unwomanly Face Of War’ Detailing their frantic and jarring lead track, enigmatic frontman Conor Clements explained: “After an exploration into …

Brighton six-piece Opus Kink have announced their second EP ‘My Eyes, Brother!’, due the 19th of May via Nice Swan Records. This is the follow up to last year’s EP ‘Til The Stream Runs Dry‘. They have shared the first glimpse of the new EP with their new track ‘Dust’. Detailing their first EP reveal, Opus Kink stated: “‘Dust’ …

Scottish band Yabba have been causing a lot of talk after their live sets last year. The quintet released their debut single ‘Get by’ last month so Backseat Mafia caught up with the band to find out all about them and what the future holds. Give us a potted history of the band The current …

Scottish band Yabba

Scottish newcomers YABBA have today released their debut single ‘GET BY’ via Nice Swan Records. The 5-piece have produced a track impossible to ignore. The opening is dominated by screeching guitars and a pounding drum beat before the distorted vocals are layered in. It’s an assault on the senses, challenging, almost dangerous and confrontational – …

Literary Mind - remix cover art

Dublin’s Sprints have released a remix of their current single ‘Literary Mind‘. Tom Sharkett experimented with new equipment and sounds while recording his band’s (W. H. Lung) first record and he was drawn deeper into the world of electronics. He creates electronic music with a punk ethos and so working with Sprints is a match …